No new features — a small, deliberate major. All changes were announced in 5.x.
Removed:
- req.method case-insensitive comparison shim (now a plain uppercase str).
- DI single-unnamed-parameter shim (name it req/request or annotate Request).
Changed:
- req.media('files') returns streaming UploadFile objects (was a bytes-dict),
via a shared Request._parsed_form() helper (also used by File() markers).
- JSON ensure_ascii defaults to False (raw UTF-8); API(json_ensure_ascii=True)
restores escaping.
- Vary: Accept on by default for negotiated responses (API(auto_vary=False) opts out).
- Route.__hash__ drops before_request so equal routes hash equal.
Tests updated to the new behavior; docs corrected. 535 tests pass; ruff + mypy clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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